Occasionally people ask what they can do to help promote D. All these
are free and effective:
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Use it for your projects. At work, point out how much more productive it is.
Write articles/blogs about your experiences using D.
Submit patches for better D support for gnu tools like gdb.
Give a presentation on D at your local programmers' club meeting.
Give a presentation on D at your place of employment, or to your class
at school.
Submit presentation abstracts on D to conferences. The nice thing is
that if your abstract is accepted, you'll get a free ticket to the
conference and maybe even get your travel expenses paid! Well worth while.
Read programming articles and if they don't mention D, but should, email
the author and point it out.
Make relevant comments about D on programming threads on Reddit,
Slashdot, Gamedev.net, stackoverflow, ycombinator, etc.
Promote open source D applications that you or others have written.
Email tool vendors and ask for D support.
Email web sites that have categories for programming languages that
don't include D, and ask for a D category.
Improve Wikipedia pages that mention D. Add mention of D to Wiki pages
that should mention it. If you know another language, translate the D
Wiki pages to the Wiki for that language.
Email prolific programming book authors and suggest that they do a book
on D programming.
Email programming book publishers and ask for books about D.

The problem I have explaining why somebody should take up D is that I know
not enough about the languages they use to actually show them the things
they are missing. Sometimes it is the, for me, obvious feature like
functions within functions that tilts their heads a bit.

The problem I have explaining why somebody should take up D is that I
know not enough about the languages they use to actually show them the
things they are missing. Sometimes it is the, for me, obvious feature
like functions within functions that tilts their heads a bit.

It looks to me that Walter's points aren't about convincing people to use
it, but to show that you are using it, that there are customers.
Convincing people to use your language rarely works. If they needed a
different language they would have found one. Funny thing is I like
looking at different languages and so does my friend, but neither of us
actually tried the other's language.

It looks to me that Walter's points aren't about convincing people to use
it, but to show that you are using it, that there are customers.

That's right. It's called "social proof".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Proof
Apple, for example, uses social proof as the central theme in its
marketing campaigns.
Back in the 1970's, Dr. Pepper hilariously used social proof in their
oxymoronic campaign "join the non-conformists!"

It looks to me that Walter's points aren't about convincing people to use
it, but to show that you are using it, that there are customers.

That's right. It's called "social proof".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Proof
Apple, for example, uses social proof as the central theme in its
marketing campaigns.
Back in the 1970's, Dr. Pepper hilariously used social proof in their
oxymoronic campaign "join the non-conformists!"

I know a language K that compiles to native code, why don't you use it
for this really important project? It's safer than C++, and less
complex, really! (by definition, nothing can be more complicated than C++)
I hope you're now convinced to try out my K language, read all the
documentation, oh and btw, it's not well organized, good luck!

I know a language K that compiles to native code, why don't you use it
for this really important project? It's safer than C++, and less
complex, really! (by definition, nothing can be more complicated than C++)
I hope you're now convinced to try out my K language, read all the
documentation, oh and btw, it's not well organized, good luck!

I know a language K that compiles to native code, why don't you use it
for this really important project? It's safer than C++, and less
complex, really! (by definition, nothing can be more complicated than
C++)
I hope you're now convinced to try out my K language, read all the
documentation, oh and btw, it's not well organized, good luck!

I know a language K that compiles to native code, why don't you use it
for this really important project? It's safer than C++, and less
complex, really! (by definition, nothing can be more complicated than
C++)
I hope you're now convinced to try out my K language, read all the
documentation, oh and btw, it's not well organized, good luck!

Who said anything about convincing you? You asked why I used it, not why
you should use it.

It looks to me that Walter's points aren't about convincing people to
use it, but to show that you are using it, that there are customers.

That's right. It's called "social proof".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Proof
Apple, for example, uses social proof as the central theme in its
marketing campaigns.
Back in the 1970's, Dr. Pepper hilariously used social proof in their
oxymoronic campaign "join the non-conformists!"

Social proof eh? hmm interesting. That's why I decided to learn vim, not
because I felt or thought I needed to, but because it *seemed* that
/real/ programmers use vim. You know what I mean?

It looks to me that Walter's points aren't about convincing people to
use it, but to show that you are using it, that there are customers.

That's right. It's called "social proof".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Proof
Apple, for example, uses social proof as the central theme in its
marketing campaigns.
Back in the 1970's, Dr. Pepper hilariously used social proof in their
oxymoronic campaign "join the non-conformists!"

Social proof eh? hmm interesting. That's why I decided to learn vim, not
because I felt or thought I needed to, but because it *seemed* that
/real/ programmers use vim. You know what I mean?

Absolutely. Some of the best dating advice I've ever got: just be yourself.
No, I was kidding :o). It was: be seen with women. It's social proof.
Andrei

It looks to me that Walter's points aren't about convincing people to
use it, but to show that you are using it, that there are customers.

That's right. It's called "social proof".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Proof
Apple, for example, uses social proof as the central theme in its
marketing campaigns.
Back in the 1970's, Dr. Pepper hilariously used social proof in their
oxymoronic campaign "join the non-conformists!"

Social proof eh? hmm interesting. That's why I decided to learn vim, not
because I felt or thought I needed to, but because it *seemed* that
/real/ programmers use vim. You know what I mean?

Absolutely. Some of the best dating advice I've ever got: just be
yourself.
No, I was kidding :o). It was: be seen with women. It's social proof.

I think "The 'if-others-are-doing-it-then-it-*must*-be-right' Fallacy" is
probably a much more accurate term for "social proof". I realize "social
proof" is the typical term for it, but calling it that just seems like
trying to call the ad hominem fallacy "associative proof".

I think "The 'if-others-are-doing-it-then-it-*must*-be-right' Fallacy"
is probably a much more accurate term for "social proof". I realize
"social proof" is the typical term for it, but calling it that just
seems like trying to call the ad hominem fallacy "associative proof".

It marketing. Why do you expect them to lable it correctly? (Rule of
Acquisition
239)

It looks to me that Walter's points aren't about convincing people to
use it, but to show that you are using it, that there are customers.

That's right. It's called "social proof".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Proof
Apple, for example, uses social proof as the central theme in its
marketing campaigns.
Back in the 1970's, Dr. Pepper hilariously used social proof in their
oxymoronic campaign "join the non-conformists!"

Social proof eh? hmm interesting. That's why I decided to learn vim, not
because I felt or thought I needed to, but because it *seemed* that
/real/ programmers use vim. You know what I mean?

Absolutely. Some of the best dating advice I've ever got: just be
yourself.
No, I was kidding :o). It was: be seen with women. It's social proof.

I think "The 'if-others-are-doing-it-then-it-*must*-be-right' Fallacy" is
probably a much more accurate term for "social proof". I realize "social
proof" is the typical term for it, but calling it that just seems like
trying to call the ad hominem fallacy "associative proof".

More like "then for all I know it's *probably* right"
Like: if everyone here uses buzz words and jargon like ad hominem then I
better learn this jargon to be considered smart.

I think "The 'if-others-are-doing-it-then-it-*must*-be-right' Fallacy" is
probably a much more accurate term for "social proof". I realize "social
proof" is the typical term for it, but calling it that just seems like
trying to call the ad hominem fallacy "associative proof".

Social proof is covertly self-referential.
And the word 'proof' here is used just as they would.